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5th March 2020

World Book Day 2020

We had great fun celebrating World Book Day in First Class. We got to write book reviews, dress up as our favourite book characters, bring in our favourite books to read and we even got to do some World Book Day art.

We all dressed up as our favourite book characters.

For art we got to draw ourselves reading our favourite books.

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February

It has been an exciting month in Senior Infants! Our theme for the month was At the Vets and we also learnt all about Spring.

Treating a sick parrot in the vet surgery!

We celebrated Pancake Tuesday and had fun decorating our pancakes with lots of our favourite toppings!

A local vet visited our class to answer all our questions about the work a vet does. He also brought some friends along and showed us how to bandage a dog’s leg.

Spring Art!

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February

We have had a really busy month!

This month the theme in our room was ‘At the Vets’.

We have been looking after and caring for all sorts of animals, taking them to get their check ups in the ‘Vet’s Surgery’ in our Role Play Area……..

We built cages and enclosures for a variety of animals in the construction area……….

We made sure the animals had a nice bath before they visited the Vet……

We had fun with playdough……….

We also had a local Vet come and talk to us in the classroom. He showed us how to put on a bandage and let us try on some gowns and masks that he uses. It was a very informative visit and the children asked loads of really good questions!

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Spring has Sprung in 2nd Class

Spring has finally arrived in 2nd Class and we are so excited!

We celebrated the first day of this new season by creating St. Brigid’s crosses and learning all about the saint. We then re-wrote the story of St. Brigid’s Cloak in our own words and made comics (see image below) that are on display on “Our Altar”. What do you think??

As Valentine’s Day falls in the month of February, our teacher, Ms Hickey surprised us by writing different reasons why we are loved on our classroom door. Each day there was a different reason. We love reading them each day, they really make us smile.

They look delicious, like the ‘Love Heart’ sweets, don’t you think?

We are really enjoying our art this year. We celebrated the Chinese New Year last month, learning lots about China. We also created lovely plaques for the walls. Did you know that this year is the year of the rat?

Our Class Mascot, Rodney the Shark, has been having a great time, spending his weekends with the boys and girls from second class. Each pupil takes a turn having Rodney at home for a weekend and writes about their adventures with him. Some boys and girls have even taken some photos with Rodney and have pasted them alongside their adventures. This is where Rodney spends his time in our classroom. He feels very at home in his classroom habitat. He certainly does not feel like a fish out of water 😉

Rodney the Shark in his classroom habitat

To make our classroom feel a little more ‘spring-like’ we created beautiful cherry-blossoms using our hand prints and sugar paper. They are our teacher’s favourite tree! She has hung them all around our classroom and in the entrance hall. Do you like them?

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Maths Stations

We have been covering the topic of 2-D shape in our maths lessons recently and had lots of fun during station teaching making shapes with all the different maths resources .

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January

Our topic for January was Africa and the children were so excited to find out all about it.

We set up our role play area as an African market stall and made necklaces, masks and paintings of our own to sell in the market. Look at all the fantastic work we have been doing